NFPA Hdbk 101 2015
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NFPA 101: Life Safety Code Handbook
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| NFPA | 2015 | 1338 |
Based on the 2015 NFPA 101®, NFPA®’s acclaimed Life Safety Code® Handbook incorporates full Code text, commentary, and visuals in a must-have resource. Any decisions you make in the built environment have the potential to affect lives. That’s why you need the best source of applications advice: the 2015 NFPA 101: Life Safety Code Handbook. This resource combines Code text and expert commentary to help you comply correctly the first time and avoid costly mistakes, violations, and job delays. In full-color, the 2015 Life Safety Code Handbook is the only reference in the industry that provides: Side-by-side presentation of occupancy requirements for new and existing buildings for easy comparison — this feature alone makes the Handbook a must! The full 2015 Life Safety Code text including changes, such as an occupant load factor for concentrated business use areas, and utilizing an atrium as part of an occupancy separation Expert commentary explaining the reasoning and intent behind the rules, with hands-on examples of how to apply the added mandates for CO detection and alarm in new educational and day care facilities, training requirements for crowd managers in assembly occupancies, and other changes Added guidance for hospital administrators and contractors on how to apply the latest health care occupancy provisions More than 750 images including photos and charts, tables, illustrations, and diagrams not found in the Code — all in full color for better visual clarification of NFPA 101 provisions Matrix comparing the 2012 and 2015 NFPA 101 that gives you an overview of technical/substantive changes at a glance If public safety depends on you, look to the 2015 NFPA 101 Handbook for essential support. Whether you’re a building owner, architect, designer, contractor, engineer, AHJ, or inspector, NFPA’s unique 2015 Life Safety Code Handbook helps you apply requirements properly to protect building occupants throughout the life cycle of the building. – See more at: http://catalog.nfpa.org/NFPA-101-Life-Safety-Code-Handbook-2015-Edition-P15695.aspx#sthash.zCmq92FQ.dpuf
PDF Catalog
| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cover |
| 3 | Contents |
| 7 | Preface |
| 9 | About the Editors |
| 10 | In Memoriam |
| 13 | 1 Administration 1.1 Scope |
| 17 | 1.2 Purpose |
| 18 | 1.3 Application 1.4 Equivalency |
| 20 | 1.5 Units and Formulas |
| 21 | 1.6 Enforcement |
| 23 | 2 Referenced Publications 2.1 General |
| 24 | 2.2 NFPA Publications |
| 25 | 2.3 Other Publications |
| 28 | 2.4 References for Extracts in Mandatory Sections |
| 29 | 3 Definitions 3.1 General 3.2 NFPA Official Definitions |
| 30 | 3.3 General Definitions |
| 65 | 4 General 4.1 Goals |
| 66 | 4.2 Objectives |
| 67 | 4.3 Assumptions 4.4 Life Safety Compliance Options |
| 69 | 4.5 Fundamental Requirements |
| 70 | 4.6 General Requirements |
| 79 | 4.7 Fire Drills |
| 80 | 4.8 Emergency Action Plan |
| 85 | 5 Performance-Based Option |
| 86 | 5.1 General Requirements |
| 89 | 5.2 Performance Criteria |
| 91 | 5.3 Retained Prescriptive Requirements 5.4 Design Specifications and Other Conditions |
| 103 | 5.5 Design Fire Scenarios |
| 110 | 5.6 Evaluation of Proposed Designs |
| 114 | 5.7 Safety Factors |
| 115 | 5.8 Documentation Requirements |
| 117 | 6 Classification of Occupancy and Hazard of Contents 6.1 Classification of Occupancy |
| 135 | 6.2 Hazard of Contents |
| 139 | 7 Means of Egress |
| 140 | 7.1 General |
| 158 | 7.2 Means of Egress Components |
| 267 | 7.3 Capacity of Means of Egress |
| 280 | 7.4 Number of Means of Egress |
| 283 | 7.5 Arrangement of Means of Egress |
| 295 | 7.6 Measurement of Travel Distance to Exits |
| 300 | 7.7 Discharge from Exits |
| 303 | 7.8 Illumination of Means of Egress |
| 306 | 7.9 Emergency Lighting |
| 309 | 7.10 Marking of Means of Egress |
| 318 | 7.11 Special Provisions for Occupancies with High Hazard Contents |
| 319 | 7.12 Mechanical Equipment Rooms, Boiler Rooms, and Furnace Rooms |
| 320 | 7.13 Normally Unoccupied Building Service Equipment Support Areas |
| 321 | 7.14 Occupant Evacuation Elevators |
| 331 | 8 Features of Fire Protection 8.1 General 8.2 Construction and Compartmentation |
| 338 | 8.3 Fire Barriers |
| 349 | 8.4 Smoke Partitions |
| 350 | 8.5 Smoke Barriers |
| 355 | 8.6 Vertical Openings |
| 376 | 8.7 Special Hazard Protection |
| 379 | 8.8 Inspection and Testing of Door Assemblies |
| 383 | 9 Building Service and Fire Protection Equipment 9.1 Utilities |
| 384 | 9.2 Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning |
| 385 | 9.3 Smoke Control |
| 386 | 9.4 Elevators, Escalators, and Conveyors |
| 390 | 9.5 Waste Chutes, Incinerators, and Laundry Chutes |
| 391 | 9.6 Fire Detection, Alarm, and Communications Systems |
| 408 | 9.7 Automatic Sprinklers |
| 411 | 9.8 Other Automatic Extinguishing Equipment |
| 412 | 9.9 Portable Fire Extinguishers 9.10 Standpipe Systems |
| 413 | 9.11 Fire Protection System Operating Features 9.12 Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection and Warning Equipment |
| 414 | 9.13 Special Inspections and Tests |
| 417 | 10 Interior Finish, Contents, and Furnishings 10.1 General |
| 419 | 10.2 Interior Finish |
| 439 | 10.3 Contents and Furnishings |
| 447 | 11 Special Structures and High-Rise Buildings |
| 448 | 11.1 General Requirements 11.2 Open Structures |
| 449 | 11.3 Towers |
| 453 | 11.4 Water-Surrounded Structures 11.5 Piers |
| 454 | 11.6 Vehicles and Vessels 11.7 Underground and Limited Access Structures |
| 456 | 11.8 High-Rise Buildings |
| 460 | 11.9 Permanent Membrane Structures |
| 462 | 11.10 Temporary Membrane Structures |
| 464 | 11.11 Tents |
| 467 | 12/13 New and Existing Assembly Occupancies |
| 470 | 12.1/13.1 General Requirements |
| 485 | 12.2/13.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 533 | 12.3/13.3 Protection |
| 544 | 12.4/13.4 Special Provisions |
| 580 | 12.5/13.5 Building Services |
| 581 | 12.6/13.6 Reserved 12.7/13.7 Operating Features |
| 599 | 14/15 New and Existing Educational Occupancies 14.1/15.1 General Requirements |
| 604 | 14.2/15.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 620 | 14.3/15.3 Protection |
| 632 | 14.4/15.4 Special Provisions |
| 634 | 14.5/15.5 Building Services |
| 636 | 14.6/15.6 Reserved 14.7/15.7 Operating Features |
| 641 | 16/17 New and Existing Day-Care Occupancies 16.1/17.1 General Requirements |
| 652 | 16.2/17.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 662 | 16.3/17.3 Protection |
| 669 | 16.4/17.4 Special Provisions |
| 671 | 16.5/17.5 Building Services 16.6/17.6 Day-Care Homes |
| 678 | 16.7/17.7 Operating Features |
| 685 | 18/19 New and Existing Health Care Occupancies |
| 686 | 18.1/19.1 General Requirements |
| 705 | 18.2/19.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 749 | 18.3/19.3 Protection |
| 794 | 18.4/19.4 Special Provisions |
| 802 | 18.5/19.5 Building Services |
| 805 | 18.6/19.6 Reserved |
| 806 | 18.7/19.7 Operating Features |
| 817 | 20/21 New and Existing Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies |
| 818 | 20.1/21.1 General Requirements |
| 827 | 20.2/21.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 838 | 20.3/21.3 Protection |
| 847 | 20.4/21.4 Special Provisions |
| 851 | 20.5/21.5 Building Services |
| 852 | 20.6/21.6 Reserved 20.7/21.7 Operating Features |
| 861 | 22/23 New and Existing Detention and Correctional Occupancies 22.1/23.1 General Requirements |
| 875 | 22.2/23.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 888 | 22.3/23.3 Protection |
| 906 | 22.4/23.4 Special Provisions |
| 917 | 22.5/23.5 Building Services |
| 919 | 22.6/23.6 Reserved 22.7/23.7 Operating Features |
| 923 | 24 One- and Two-Family Dwellings 24.1 General Requirements |
| 925 | 24.2 Means of Escape Requirements |
| 931 | 24.3 Protection |
| 934 | 24.4 Reserved 24.5 Building Services |
| 937 | 25 Reserved |
| 939 | 26 Lodging or Rooming Houses 26.1 General Requirements |
| 941 | 26.2 Means of Escape Requirements |
| 944 | 26.3 Protection |
| 948 | 26.4 Reserved 26.5 Building Services 26.6 Reserved 26.7 Operating Features |
| 949 | 27 Reserved |
| 951 | 28/29 New and Existing Hotels and Dormitories 28.1/29.1 General Requirements |
| 954 | 28.2/29.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 964 | 28.3/29.3 Protection |
| 975 | 28.4/29.4 Special Provisions |
| 976 | 28.5/29.5 Building Services |
| 977 | 28.6/29.6 Reserved 28.7/29.7 Operating Features |
| 981 | 30/31 New and Existing Apartment Buildings 30.1/31.1 General Requirements |
| 986 | 30.2/31.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 998 | 30.3/31.3 Protection |
| 1011 | 30.4/31.4 Special Provisions |
| 1012 | 30.5/31.5 Building Services |
| 1013 | 30.6/31.6 Reserved 30.7/31.7 Operating Features |
| 1015 | 32/33 New and Existing Residential Board and Care Occupancies |
| 1016 | 32.1/33.1 General Requirements |
| 1022 | 32.2/33.2 Small Facilities |
| 1049 | 32.3/33.3 Large Facilities |
| 1076 | 32.4/33.4 Suitability of an Apartment Building to House a Board and Care Occupancy |
| 1078 | 32.5/33.5 Reserved 32.6/33.6 Reserved 32.7/33.7 Operating Features |
| 1083 | 34 Reserved 35 Reserved |
| 1085 | 36/37 New and Existing Mercantile Occupancies |
| 1086 | 36.1/37.1 General Requirements |
| 1096 | 36.2/37.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 1109 | 36.3/37.3 Protection |
| 1114 | 36.4/37.4 Special Provisions |
| 1127 | 36.5/37.5 Building Services |
| 1128 | 36.6/37.6 Reserved 36.7/37.7 Operating Features |
| 1129 | 38/39 New and Existing Business Occupancies 38.1/39.1 General Requirements |
| 1135 | 38.2/39.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 1148 | 38.3/39.3 Protection |
| 1153 | 38.4/39.4 Special Provisions |
| 1154 | 38.5/39.5 Building Services 38.6/39.6 Reserved 38.7/39.7 Operating Features |
| 1157 | 40 Industrial Occupancies |
| 1158 | 40.1 General Requirements |
| 1162 | 40.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 1170 | 40.3 Protection |
| 1172 | 40.4 Special Provisions 40.5 Building Services 40.6 Special Provisions for Aircraft Servicing Hangars |
| 1173 | 40.7 Operating Features |
| 1175 | 41 Reserved |
| 1177 | 42 Storage Occupancies 42.1 General Requirements |
| 1178 | 42.2 Means of Egress Requirements |
| 1184 | 42.3 Protection |
| 1185 | 42.4 Special Provisions |
| 1186 | 42.5 Building Services 42.6 Special Provisions for Aircraft Storage Hangars 42.7 Special Provisions for Grain Handling, Processing, Milling, or Other Bulk Storage Facilities |
| 1188 | 42.8 Special Provisions for Parking Structures |
| 1192 | 42.9 Operating Features |
| 1193 | 43 Building Rehabilitation 43.1 General |
| 1197 | 43.2 Special Definitions |
| 1200 | 43.3 Repairs |
| 1201 | 43.4 Renovations |
| 1203 | 43.5 Modifications |
| 1204 | 43.6 Reconstruction |
| 1209 | 43.7 Change of Use or Occupancy Classification |
| 1216 | 43.8 Additions |
| 1218 | 43.9 Reserved |
| 1219 | 43.10 Historic Buildings |
| 1223 | Annexes A Explanatory Material |
| 1225 | B Supplemental Evacuation Equipment |
| 1235 | C Informational References |
| 1241 | Supplement |
| 1243 | Technical/Substantive Changes 2012–2015 Editions |
| 1289 | Index |
| 1337 | Important Notices and Legal Disclaimers |
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